A Study on Therapeutic landscape environment for the elderly with dementia based on multisensory stimulation

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국공간디자인학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국공간디자인학회 논문집 / 17권 / 1호 / 35 ~ 50페이지
· 저자명 : 우양, 조택연

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(Background and Purpose)The acceleration of aging has resulted in many social problems, one of which is the imbalance between the increase in the population with dementia and the available social forces that help them live. One of the important factors causing this imbalance is how living spaces for elderly individuals with dementia are designed. The living environment of the elderly with dementia, which in most cases is the sanatorium, is designed without understanding the neural structure of the disease. In particular, we do not understand the neural activity relationship between the outdoor environment and the stimulus and response in dementia, and only focus on creating a pure indoor visual stimulation environment. Although the individual sensory systems of the elderly with dementia deteriorate, multisensory integration processing increases. Thus, this research proposes establishing a multisensory stimulation therapeutic landscape environment for the elderly with dementia to alleviate the mental and behavioral symptoms and delay the development of the disease course. (Method) This study enrolled elderly individuals with dementia as limited research subjects. First, neurological research on dementia was conducted to define the significance of the multisensory stimulation environment, neural activity of the elderly with dementia, and therapeutic landscape environment. Second, the relationship between the neural activity of elderly individuals with dementia who responded to multisensory stimuli and the therapeutic landscape environment was organized. Third, six design methods and relative design suggestions were proposed for creating the multisensory therapeutic landscape environment for elderly individuals with dementia. (Results) This study examined the relationship between multisensory stimulation and the therapeutic landscape environment of elderly individuals with dementia, to propose six design methods that enrich the plant species and forms of multisensory stimulation, strengthen tactile-centered multisensory stimulation, enhance the connection between sensory stimuli, symbolize past experience and memory, construct deductive space, and design time-effective activities and games. (Conclusions) It is important to emphasize the necessity of multisensory stimulation in the design of therapeutic landscape environments. Further research should be undertaken to chalk out the design of multisensory stimulation to improve the quality of life of elderly individuals with dementia. This study proposes a new way of constructing an outdoor therapeutic landscape for elderly individuals with dementia and will provide basic data to create an environment for improving their quality of life.

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